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Jerry Bischof's work pager buzzed as the server arrived with his plate of herb-rubbed salmon. The message told him that power to one of the two nuclear reactors at Surry Power Station had been lost. It was operating on backup generators. Before he could find out what happened, the pager buzzed again indicating the second reactor was running on backup power. Bischof, the station's manager, thought the paging system was broken. Never in his 23 years as a nuclear engineer had both reactors lost power simultaneously. Only a grave mistake or something sudden, violent and powerful could cause such a scenario. That something, Bischof later discovered, was a tornado that sent...

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Jerry Bischof's work pager buzzed as the server arrived with his plate of herb-rubbed salmon.
The message told him that power to one of the two nuclear reactors at Surry Power Station had been lost. It was operating on backup generators.
Before he could...

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Shigeo...

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Would you like free insurance with that?
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